# return false (0) on error
def read_and_pass_mail(mbox):
	mail = open(mbox)
	if not mail:
		print "Couldn't open mailbox"
		return 0
	else:
		for line in mail:
			# pass each line to the parser here
			print line
		mail.truncate(0)
		mail.close()
	
	return 1